Back-end Principal Engineer

Can you talk for hours about the interesting products you have worked on and the simple solutions you've developed by leveraging application patterns, cloud services, or open-source technology? Do you just love working with code and being the go-to senior software engineer on your team? Do you feel empowered when given the opportunity to be the owner and the gatekeeper of a fast-growing, high-stake codebase? If so, then this job is for you.

This is a unique opportunity to embark on the journey of building brand new, disruptive, fast-growing, cloud-first products using the bleeding-edge in serverless cloud patterns.

What you will be doing:

• Develop the most complex features and fix the toughest bugs on the back-end codebase of our cloud-based products
• Make heavy use of AWS and GCP serverless patterns to provide the simplest, lowest cost-of-ownership solution
• Establish and maintain a high level of codebase quality through the well-written, high-coverage unit and integration tests
• Be the gate-keeper on the entire back-end codebase - review the work of other engineers on the team to make sure it's above both your and the team's bar
• Provide valuable and insightful coaching to other engineers in the team, helping them reach your level of mastery and code-simplicity

What you will NOT be doing:

• Small bug-fixes or features on outdated monolithic codebases
• Tedious infrastructure work to enable poorly written products to continue running
• People management
• Get stuck on long meetings discussing roadmaps, product plans, and priorities

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicating with important project stakeholders to deeply understand product use-cases
• Creating high-quality, simple, flexible code that meets the technical specification (both correct and complete)
• Developing code across a large number of products and industries, instead of being siloed on a single product for years
• Reviewing all code changes and holding them up to the highest quality standards
• Providing technical coaching to the more junior people on the team and your peers

Candidate Requirements:

• A university degree that included an in-depth study of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, computer architecture, and software engineering
• At least 5 years of back-end software development experience in which you wrote object-oriented code
• A role where in the last 3 years where most of your job was either actively writing or reviewing code of more junior developers
• A role in your career where you were the lead engineer on a product or component where you were responsible for the quality of the code of other developers

Nice to have:

• Experience with leveraging tier 1 cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) for building cloud-first applications
• Experience with serverless cloud patterns for major cloud providers (eg. AWS Lambda, API Gateway)

Deadline for applications: 07.08.2022.